The integration of AIRA - Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant - into Frontiers' digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling.
Scientific data might be filled with important things waiting to be discovered.
To what extent should academic hiring and promotional bodies apply a discount for articles with many authors?
The government hopes it will improve research quality, but some researchers are sceptical.
Publishers, reviewers and other members of the scientific community must fight science's preference for positive results - for the benefit of all.
Moscow’s academic repression is expanding into the EU, scholars say, with researchers in Europe facing cyber-attacks and designation as “extremists”.
Last year, the new Microsoft Academic service was launched. Sven E. Hug and Martin P. Brändle look at how it compares with more established competitors such as Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.
25 technologists, activists, and scientists will spend the next 10 to 12 months creating a more secure, inclusive, and decentralized internet.
Grant capture is often used as a formal metric for academic evaluation. The author argues that this practice has led to perverse incentives for researchers and institutions and that research funders have both a responsibility and a significant interest in using their influence to halt this practice.
It’s on course to guzzle half the world’s carbon budget, so why are governments so afraid to discuss it?
An open access book mandate is one Research Excellence Framework (REF) cycle away. If implemented, research funders should focus on enabling infrastructure rather than compliance.
Europe’s researchers have access to super-fast networks, common data storage facilities, and shared computing resources. The challenge now is to link them all together into a single science cloud.
For Peer Review Week, researchers from across the spectrum offer advice and insights about how to review research manuscripts
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Researchers of the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have closely analysed the characteristics of cosmic dust based on laboratory experiments and measurement data collected by space missions.
This data tool illustrates the extent to which the scientific community is losing a talented workforce.
The impact factor is a poor measure of a journal's quality, and academics say it should either be overhauled or done away with entirely.
More than 10,000 visual works for academic papers across assorted fields over the past four years have made their way to the world's top academic journals.
Half a billion dollars are being pledged to study the microbes in humans, crops, soils, oceans, and more.
Replacing the real world with a virtual one is a neat trick. Combining the two could be more useful.
Space missions can continue to collect data, but thousands of federal researchers are forced to stay home without pay.
Horizons should stimulate debate about research and science policy, writes Matthias Egger, the President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
